Vietnamese 4 Everybody
Course
Six short beginner podcast lessons on Southern Vietnamese sounds, tone marks, and numbers with simple listen and repeat practice.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice. Not sure where to start? Try our Resource Finder.
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Lilian Vietnamese
Comprehensible Input
Free YouTube channel with beginner friendly Vietnamese comprehensible input videos that use slow speech and visuals to build listening and vocabulary.
Levion
Popular Vietnamese-learning Instagram channel with bite-size, engaging content that boosts daily exposure, but it works best as a supplement, not a full course.
Levion
Vietnamese learning podcast with real dialogues and slow stories featuring native speakers, transcripts, and vocabulary building for beginners.
YouTube
Viet Language
Vietnamese-language YouTube channel with Southern accent teaching from native speaker in Saigon, covering lessons for beginners and intermediate learners.
Anki Deck
Basic Vietnamese for English Speakers: Audio
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with 1,096 Northern Vietnamese words and phrases, color coded tones, a tone chart, and audio on most cards for self study.
Blog
Tiếng Việt Thực Hành
Course Readers
WordPress blog with free Vietnamese heritage materials, including preschool to grade 7 workbooks, dialogue books, stories, and review exercises.
Website
Vietnamese Immersion Guide
Course
Free website with an immersion-based Vietnamese roadmap, a 30-day beginner routine, and setup guides for Anki, Yomitan, and study resources.
My Sister is a Bother
Readers
Bilingual picture book about sibling feelings, written mainly in English with selected Vietnamese words and lines for family reading practice. ISBN-13 9798988987635.
Clozemaster
Flash Cards
Mobile app for learning Vietnamese through fill in the blank sentence drills, with spaced review, audio, and AI explanations for wrong answers.
Preply
Tutoring
Website for booking 1-on-1 Vietnamese lessons with independent tutors, with trial classes, filters, scheduling, and a recurring subscription.
Sale: 50% discount first lesson.
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Learn Vietnamese With Jane
Course
Free YouTube lessons for beginners learning Southern Vietnamese, with a clear path through alphabet, tones, pronunciation, grammar, and listening.
VietSpeech
Flash Cards
Free printable VietSpeech PDFs for families with speech cards, a bilingual workbook, and simple guides to help children speak Vietnamese and English.
Learn Southern Vietnamese with Thanh
Free YouTube lessons for learning Southern Vietnamese through pronunciation practice, everyday phrases, and listening-based examples.
Website
Thư trạm
Course Dictionary
Free website with a lesson-based Vietnamese grammar guide and a searchable grammar dictionary for self-study from beginner basics onward.
Website
Omniglot
Free Omniglot reference page for Vietnamese Quốc Ngữ with alphabet and tone notes, sample audio, and links to phrases, numbers, and more.
italki
Tutoring
Website for booking 1-on-1 Vietnamese lessons with independent teachers, with trial classes, flexible scheduling, and optional AI study tools.
iSpeak Vietlingo
Course Tutoring
Hanoi-based Vietnamese school offering private and group classes, plus Vietnamese with Ease books and a companion podcast for beginner practice.
About the Library
The Library is the structured side of this website. Apps, textbooks, Anki and flash card decks, online courses, language schools, and dictionaries — the resources actually built to teach you Vietnamese in an organised way. Each resource has a short summary, pros and cons, and a note on who it fits best.
No resource is great at everything. Some are strong for reading and weak for listening. Some have great content trapped behind a clunky app. Some only cover one dialect well. The pros and cons on each page call these things out, so you find out before you've spent a weekend on something that wasn't going to work for you anyway.
Everything here is tagged by dialect, format, cost, and the skills it trains. The filters cut a long list down fast: pick Northern or Southern, free or paid, mobile or desktop, listening-focused or grammar-focused, and most of the noise disappears.
FAQ
The Library lists structured learning resources designed to teach you Vietnamese: apps, textbooks, courses, decks, and dictionaries. The Media section covers native input for practice, such as YouTube channels, podcasts, news sites, and dubbed shows. Most learners use both. Start with the Library to build foundations, then add Media once you can recognize basic words and want to train your ear on natural speech.
We look at whether a resource teaches Vietnamese in a useful way, whether the audio quality is acceptable, and whether it is still available and maintained. Each entry has a short review with pros and cons and a note on who it suits best. We do not include resources that are abandoned, broken, or that have not enough valueable content.
Nothing beats a good teacher. Classes — online or face-to-face — give you live feedback on pronunciation, real conversation practice, and someone who can answer the questions a textbook cannot. If classes are not an option, the next best setup is one main course or app to give you structure, a vocabulary review tool such as an Anki deck, and a dictionary you keep open while studying. Our beginner's guide walks through this in detail, with specific picks for both Northern and Southern learners.
No, the Library is a mix. Some are completely free, like Anki decks and many online dictionaries. Some are paid, like most textbooks and language schools. And some are freemium, like apps that give you a beginner course for free but charge for the full content. Use the cost filter to narrow the catalog down to free, freemium, or paid resources only.
Yes. Each resource is tagged with the dialect or dialects it covers. Use the dialect filter to see only Northern, Central or Southern resources. Some entries are dialect-neutral, like dictionaries and grammar references, because written Vietnamese is the same nationwide. If you are unsure which dialect to learn, our Northern and Southern dialect guides explain the differences and how to choose.